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On the evening of Wednesday, March 25, parents and students in grades 6-12 gathered at Bacon Academy to attend separate presentations about drug addiction as part of the Community Conversations series. The event, which was sponsored by the Colchester Youth Services' Youth FIRST Coalition and Colchester Public Schools, attracted a crowd of roughly 150. Parents attended a presentation by Mary Marcuccio, the founder and CEO of My Bottom Line, LLC, an organization that helps parents deal with young adults who are addicted to opiates. Marcuccio shared her family's story and provided a comprehensive education about opiates. Marcuccio began her presentation by discussing her...

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On the evening of Wednesday, March 25, parents and students in grades 6-12 gathered at Bacon Academy to attend separate presentations about drug addiction as part of the Community Conversations series. The event, which was sponsored by the Colchester...

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FALL RIVER, Mass. — A Bristol, Conn. cousin of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez testified in detail Tuesday about the crazy, erratic, PCP-induced behavior of the two other men charged with murder in the 2013 Odin Lloyd homicide, but...

Several residents of Aaron Hernandez's hometown of Bristol, Conn., testified Friday about the aftermath of the 2013 Odin Lloyd homicide, as Massachusetts prosecutors turned their focus to the flight of one of the former New England Patriots tight end's...

TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez reported to the New York Yankees three days ahead of schedule. He spoke for 81/2 minutes about his season-long drug suspension.
But on his first day back with the team since September 2013, he never said why he resumed the...

FARMINGTON — Local students "dramatically" overestimate alcohol and drug use by their peers, according to results of a recent school survey."There's this gap between perception and reality and it's a big gap," said Ed Manfredi, the...

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On Oct. 1, Connecticut joined 27 other states in banning e-cigarette sales to minors. That common-sense approach was supported by tobacco industry representatives as well as public health officials. The law lays out fines and timelines for anyone selling,...

Q: We have a friend who's started smoking cigarettes, and quite heavily. She claims to love animals. I wonder how second-hand smoke affects pets. I think I know the answer, but my friend needs a blast of reality from a professional like...

NEW BRITAIN — A forensic psychiatrist testified Monday that Jan Gawlik was suffering from a psychotic illness when he brutally murdered his 90-year-old father in October 2011.Dr. Alec Buchanan said that he evaluated Gawlik at the reqest of defense...

NEW BRITAIN — Jan Gawlik told a Superior Court jury Wednesday that after consuming a massive amount of cocaine and opiates on Oct. 13, 2011, he was possessed by Satan, who used Gawlik to brutally murder Jozef Gawlik, Jan's 90-year-old father.Gawlik took...

The Windsor Locks Wellness Coalition, established in 2005, wanted to play a role in helping Windsor Locks' adolescents make healthy choices. In partnership with New Directions CT, the group distributes a quadrennial survey which evaluates the status of...

It's easy to understand why city hall wouldn't want to make public an evaluation of parts of Hartford's Department of Public Works.
The report, dated March 1, was given only to Mayor Pedro Segarra and the city's chief operating officer until NBC...

Medical marijuana hit the shelves in Connecticut just two weeks ago, but there's already been a push to change state regulations about how the medication is sold to chronically ill patients.
"Our Plant, Our Right," an online petition, seeks...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Republican business executive Tom Foley clashed Tuesday night on the economy, jobs, and education in their second major televised debate.
In a last-minute, lightning-round question that Foley said caught him off guard, both...

Marijuana use among teenagers has climbed steadily since 2007, surpassed tobacco use in 2011 and is expected to supersede alcohol use in 2020.
This trend is mainly attributed to the growing belief that marijuana is not harmful to youths' health and...

Connecticut residents in 2011-2012 smoked more marijuana, took slightly more cocaine, and guzzled more booze than the national average, according to the latest survey on the nation's drug and alcohol trends.The National Survey of Drug Use and Health...

Meeting for the first time since regulations for the medical marijuana program were enacted, the state's six-member Board of Physicians began working out the details of an entirely new system Wednesday.
Without the guidance of the U.S. Federal Drug...

Decriminalizing pot and opening the door to medical marijuana seems like the right thing. We've wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in a futile effort to block use of something that seems less harmful than alcohol.I'm sure of it, just like I can't think...

A civil lawsuit accusing a former junior high school principal of sexual abuse has been withdrawn and appears to have been settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. Jeffrey Stuart alleged in the 2008 lawsuit that James M. Ellis molested...